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" We have 100 genes or so, which we know we can't knock out without killing the cell, that are of unknown structure. "

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" Society and medicine treat us all as members of populations, whereas as individuals we are all unique, and population statistics do not apply. "

" Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electromagnetic waves, carrying my genetic information far beyond Earth. Whether there is any creature out there capable of making sense of the instructions in my genome, well, that's another question. "

" The gene 'klotho' was named after the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, because it contributes to longevity. "

" If I had a weak ego, and doubts about this, the first genome would not yet have been completed with US and UK government funding. "

" If I could change the science system, my prescription for changing the whole thing would be organising it around big goals and building teams to do it. "

" I think I've achieved some good things; doing the first genome in history - my team on that was phenomenal and all the things they pulled together; writing the first genome with a synthetic cell; my teams at the Venter Institute, Human Longevity, and before that Celera. "

" Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring algae that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven't found it. "

" There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind. "

" Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer. "

" People think they're making individual decisions for themselves and their family not to get vaccinated. It's not just an individual choice - you're a hazard to society. "

" My greatest fear is not the abuse of technology but that we will not use it at all. "

" Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short. "

" Genetic design is something we can use to fight the lack of sustainability we humans are forcing on the earth's environment. "

" As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design. "

" We need 10,000 genomes, not 100, to start to understand the link between genetics, disease and wellness. "

" One of the fundamental discoveries I made about myself - early enough to make use of it - was that I am driven to seize life and to understand it. The motor that pushes me is propelled by more than scientific curiosity. "

" We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species. "

" Privacy with medical information is a fallacy. If everyone's information is out there, it's part of the collective. "

" I have this idea of trying to catalog all the genes on the planet. "

" The Janus-like nature of innovation - its responsible use and so on - was evident at the very birth of human ingenuity, when humankind first discovered how to make fire on demand. "

" The day is not far off when we will be able to send a robotically controlled genome-sequencing unit in a probe to other planets to read the DNA sequence of any alien microbe life that may be there. "

" Organisms in the ocean provide over 40 percent of the oxygen we breathe, and they're the major sink for capturing all the carbon dioxide we constantly release into the atmosphere. "

" The future of society is 100% dependent on scientific advances. "

" We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine. "

" When most people talk about biofuels, they talk about using oils or grease from plants. "

" The leading edge of the best science in the world is being driven by private money, and investment money because of the scarcity of government money to do this. It's not only by far the best and most advanced science, we're driving the equation at Human Longevity that everyone else is beginning to follow as well. "

" Patents are basically rights to try and develop a commercial product. "

" I've gotten some pretty nice awards. I'm having trouble finding places to put them all. "

" Sometime in the future, I am a hundred percent certain scientists will sit down at a computer terminal, design what they want the organism to do, and build it. "

" You cannot look at a person's genes and say with any accuracy whether they are from one racial group or another. "